Prospective evaluation of prognostic significance of the tumor-free distance from uterine serosa in surgically staged endometrial adenocarcinoma

Gynecologic Oncology

Volumn 112, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 146-149

  Schwab, Katherine V ^a   O'Malley, David M ^a   Fowler, Jeffrey M ^a   Copeland, Larry J ^a   Cohn, David E ^a  

^a THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth of invasion; Endometrial cancer; Prognostic factors; Surgical staging

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER GRADING; CANCER INVASION; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER RECURRENCE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; ENDOMETRIUM CARCINOMA; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; LYMPH VESSEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MYOMETRIUM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEROSA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARCINOMA, ENDOMETRIOID; ENDOMETRIAL NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MYOMETRIUM; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; NEOPLASM STAGING; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; ROC CURVE;

EID: 57649096457     PISSN: 00908258     EISSN: 10956859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygyno.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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